Broadside entitled 'Dreadful Collision!!'

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DREADFUL

Collision ! !

One Hundred and Twenty-twoLives Lost!

A full and particular Accountof the loss of the Ship Go-vernor Fenner, with Emi-grants for America, whichtook place off Holyhead,on Saturday Morning last,when 122 Men, Womenand Children lost their lives.

I t is our painful task to have to record one of themost melancholy disasters which, of late years, hastaken place in the channel, and which has beenaccompanied by the loss of not less than one hun-dred and twenty-two men, women and children.

The American ship Governor Fenner, CaptainAndrews, which sailed hence on Friday, at noon,for New York, came in contact, on the followingmorning, at two o'clock, off Holyhead, with theNottingham, steamer, from Dublin to this port.The ship struck the steamer amidships. So greatwas the force of the collision, that the ship's bowswere stove in, and, in a few minutes from the timeof the vessels coming in contact, she sank, thecaptain and the mate being the only persons, outof 124 souls on board, who saved their lives. TheNottingham was dreadfully shattered, but, havingbeen struck in her strongest part, the collision wasnot fatal to her.

The passengen were all below in their berthswhen the collision between the ship and the steamertook place. The shock caused by it would, ofcourse, rouse even those who might have beenasleep. No doubt they would make a rush towardsthe deck : the interval, however, which elapsed be-rween the shock and the sinking was so short,scarcely five minutes, that very few, if any couldhave succeeded in reaching it; so that, in all pro-bability, most of them perished in their berths.The mate, we understand, had been married a fewdays only before the ship's sailing on her voyage:the captain had given her a berth with her husbandin the cabin. When the fate of the ship becameinevitable, he attempted to run aft to rescue hiswife. Time failed him?the instinct of self-preser-vation became strong?he sprang up the shrouds,and reached the steamer, as we have already stated,by jumping from the foreyard-arm.

The Nottingham, which now lies on the east sideof the Clarence Dock, was yesterday visited bythousands of curious spectators. Her starboardside is a complete wreck ; even the houses on thedeck adjoining are shivered to fragments. TheHead animals, cows and sheep, covered the deck,and presented a shocking sight, most of them hav-ing been disembowelled by the concussion whichcaused their death.?From the Edinburgh Obserwer,Tuesday, 23d February, 1841.